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The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), whichadvisesNASA and Congress on safety, has released its 2025 annual report on NASAs performance and challenges. While the panel acknowledged NASAs safety achievements, it war...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international team led by Nikolaus Sulzenauer and Axel Wei from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy...

Leaders of U.S. Space Command, U.S. Strategic Command and U.S. Northern Command closely involved in Golden Dome planning The post Golden Dome to require unprecedented coordination between U.S. combatant commands appeared...

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million cosmic scenes, including supermassive black holes, merging galaxies, and supernova explosions.

When MSL Curiosity was sent to Gale Crater, one of its goals was to study boxwork ridge features on Mt. Sharp. The rover has gathered its fourth sample from the rocks, and results are on their way. Previous samples showe...

'We stick together. That's how we win this.'

NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway smiles up at the camera as he enters the International Space Station Feb. 14, 2026, after docking to the orbiting laboratory aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Since Hathaway and fellow Crew-...

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have resolved a long-standing debate about the strength of the moon's magnetic field. For decades, scientists have argued about whether the moo...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University researchers now have evidence of the surprisingly simple process that could be responsible for ...

The blood moon phase will be visible across swathes of North America before dawn on March 3.

Indias space agency says a valve failure prevented a navigation spacecraft launched more than a year ago from raising its orbit. The post Valve malfunction blamed for failure of Indian satellite to raise its orbit appear...

In late February, people in the Northern Hemisphere can look up for a special sight : Six planets will all be visible from clear and dark night skies. New sonifications from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory released [day ...

Save almost 40% on the Lego Star Wars Tantive IV set, a buildable replica of the iconic ship from where the franchise started in 'A New Hope'.

Rocket Lab's HASTE suborbital rocket will launch a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle for the U.S. military today (Feb. 25), and you can watch the liftoff live.

Certain nutrients critical for human health lack the shelf life needed to span multi-year missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASAs BioNutrients-3 is part of an experiment series testing ways to use microorganisms to...

Thinking about food systems in deep space likely brings to mind something like the Martian where an astronaut is scratching barely enough food to survive out of potatoes grown in Martian regolith. Or perhaps a fancy hydr...

Dining on the moon or Mars might seem like a fantasy reserved for science fiction, but researchers are investigating how it could become a reality. Their efforts to recycle plant and human waste into a fertilizer materia...

It seems that the southern hemisphere gets all the good comets. A bashful binocular comet is about to finally leave its southern perch, and briefly come into view for folks up north. Said comet of the moment is C/2023 E1...

Thinking about food systems in deep space likely brings to mind something like The Martian where an astronaut is scratching barely enough food to survive out of potatoes grown in Martian regolith. Or perhaps a fancy hydr...

Two heads are better than one in the latest images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which reveal new detail in a mysterious, little-studied nebula surrounding a dying star. Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and d...

Cities far below the International Space Station and stars far in the cosmic distance create ghostly trails of light in a long-exposure photograph from NASA astronaut Chris Williams.

Two heads are better than one in the latest images from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, which reveal new detail in a mysterious, little-studied nebula surrounding a dying star. Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust t...